Kailah brings a wealth of knowlege of the game from many different aspects, as both a player and a coach. She most recently played attack this summer for the New York Fight in the Women's Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL). She previously played four years of DI Lacrosse at Syracuse University where she holds the record as the school's all-time leader in draw controls. During her time playing for the Orange, Kempney competed in four consecutive NCAA Final Fours and made two National Championship appearances. She also previously coached at the collegiate level as an assistant coach for the University of Colorado women's lacrosse team.

Claire is from Winnetka, IL and excelled in two sports at New Trier High School. She captained both New Trier’s lacrosse and ice hockey teams as a senior. McCain earned back-to-back All-Conference and All-State honors in her final two seasons of lacrosse. In 2012, the team won the Central Suburban League Championship and earned a spot in the state championship game. That year, McCain was named to the Under Armour All-America Midwest and Chicago Metro National teams. McCain also played for the True Lacrosse club from 2011-12. She was a four-year letter-winner in hockey, helping New Trier to a state championship in 2012.

Claire continued her lacrosse career as a four year letter winner at the University of Colorado as a member of the inaugural Division 1 program, playing for Varsity Head Coach Kailah Kempney her junior and senior seasons. While at Colorado the Buffs were successful from there very first season, going 11-8 with a team of only freshman and improved our record every year, ending on a 16-4 record her senior season in 2017. That same season Colorado was ranked as high as #4 in the nation for multiple weeks as we topped great programs including Northwestern, Penn State, James Madison, Stanford, UMASS, USC and more. The Buffs competed for the MPSF Conference Title in 2017 and made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history in 2017

Claire moved to Frisco in December 2017 and loves soccer and hockey as well as lacrosse. She works at PepsiCo and also coaches for C2C.

Jordan Little

HS Assistant & Goalie Coach

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Jordan was born and raised in Frisco, Texas, where she attended Frisco High School. She played soccer and ran cross country through the school. She was a four-year letter winner as a goalie for soccer as well as earning Captain and Honorable Mention in her senior year. In her high school years, she didn’t pick up a stick until just before her junior year. Frisco hadn’t solidified their team yet, so she played as an attacker for Plano Premier. In her junior year, the team claimed the title of runners-up at State. By her senior year, Jordan was named Captain of her lacrosse team in addition to her soccer team and earned Academic All State.

Jordan recently graduated from Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX) with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Paideia Distinction. She began her lacrosse career as an attacker for the Pirates, but was moved into the cage her sophomore year due to injuries to both current goalies. She finished her career as the starting and sole goalie of the program. She was one of three inaugural captains in the Pirates’ fourth established season. She led the team to 7-9, 8-8, and 7-7 seasons in her time in the cage. She is the only Southwestern goalie to have also scored goals. In her time at Southwestern, she achieved the following awards: Director of Athletics Academic Excellence Award (Fall ’15, Spring ’16, Fall ’16, Spring ’17), Dean’s List (Fall ’15, Spring ’16, Fall ’16, Spring ’17), Independent Teams Academic Honor Roll (Spring ’17), Chi Alpha Sigma (Spring ’17), Pirate Anchor Award Nominee (Spring ’17), IWLCA Academic Honor Roll (Spring ’17).

Since graduation, Jordan has been enjoying some time off. She spends an abundant amount of time volunteering for and maintaining leadership roles in her church, Genesis Metro. She upholds leadership roles in the children’s ministry, youth ministry, and college ministry. When she’s not on the field or at church, she can be found in a number of places working on what comes next!

Born and raised in a big family on the Jersey Shore, Mary attended Mater Dei High School in New Monmouth, NJ. She received her BA in Literature from the University of Dallas where she was a member of the inaugural Lady Crusaders Basketball team. Mary and her husband John have lived in Frisco since 1998. They have three children and have been active volunteers for their children’s pursuits in education, music, faith and athletics. Their youngest daughter, Eva, has been playing lacrosse in Frisco since fourth grade and is currently on the Fury HS Varsity team. The Bickels both have great memories from their own time playing team sports, and want to help create positive sports experiences

Amy Howard

High School Age Level Coordinator

Contact: amyhoward@me.com

Despite being an alumna of the University of Virginia, a perennial lacrosse powerhouse, and her father-in-law having played in college, Amy never saw a lacrosse game until her son first picked up a stick as a kindergartener seven years ago. Since that time, all three of her kids have gotten very involved with the sport on some level. Amy’s two daughters currently play for Frisco Fury with her oldest also playing for a travel club.

Between lacrosse, club soccer, academy basketball, high school athletics and all sports in between, Amy has pretty much seen it all in North Texas youth sports. In the lacrosse world, her son and eldest daughter combined have played for a private school, two other town programs, and four different travel teams. Amy is thrilled to be able to use that past experience to help support Frisco Fury's High School teams, coaches and families.